Carving device



(No Model.) H. MITCHELL.

GARVING DEVICE.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HIHAM MITCHELL, CE sCoTTDALE, PENNSYLVANIA.

CARVING DEVICE.

.SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 345,528, dated July 13, 1886.

Application led October 29,1884. Seria-l No. 146,872. (No model.)

T0 all whom it may concern..-

Be it known that l, HIEAM MITCHELL, a citizen of Pennsylvania, residing at Scottdale, in the county of Westmoreland and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain lnew and useful Improvements in Carving Devices, of which the following is a description.

Figure l is a plan View of my invention attached to a platter or dish. Fig. 2 is a transverse section on line X X in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a transverse section on the line A A in Fig. 1.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

OMy invention consists of the combination of a three-timed fork at oneend and acrotch or Uat the other end, both connected together by means of an adjustable rod having four wings or arms extending out over the rim of the platter or dish, the whole being adj ustableby means of independent foot-pieces under the fork or crotch, which have threaded dowels screwing into the foot-pieces, and by so doing clamp the Whole together rigidly to any sized platter or dish, the parts adjustable to suit any sized fowl.

In the drawings, A is an ordinary platter or dish, and b is a fork with three tines, one This fork is intended to retain the neck of the fowl, the small tine preventing it from slipping.

C is a crotch intended to retain the back or rump of the fowl.

have a threaded dowel at'the lower end/screwing into the foot-pieces D. The foot-pieces D The fork b and crotch C rest'on the bottom of the plat-ter. Each footpiece has two slots passing through it at right angles to each other. The upper slot is to reccive the adjustable bar E, and the bottom slot receives the wings or arms F. 4The bar and arms pass one under the other at the center of the footpiece and hook over the rim ofthe platter. It will be seen that by screwing the crotch C and the fork b down they will crowd the adjustable bar 'E onto the wings F, thus formingan adjustable combination by which the device can be fastened rigidly to any sized platter and be adjusted in length to suit any sized fowl.

The turkeys or other fowls are held rigidly in an elevated position over the platter, for the purpose of allowing the platter under the fowl .to be used for the carved meat, thus forming HIRAM MITCHELL.

Witnesses:

B. R. MITCHELL, M. O. MULvIHILL, J. W. WILEY, W. H. MITCHELL. 

